The Doctor Who thread

[griffin]

The ABC are gearing up for the new Dr Who in December by showing the Eccleston episodes starting today - daily on channel 2/20/21 at 3.30pm and repeated on channel 23 at 8pm. Over 10 years old now.

[Autocon]

Whos watching 2am tonight?

[Autocon]

Hmm i was disappionted with the episode. It was nice when they involved the christmas truce during the war. So this means he knows from the very start of his life when he will be in conflict to regenerate, and he will survive everything up to that date.

[Paulbot]

Hmm i was disappionted with the episode. It was nice when they involved the christmas truce during the war. So this means he knows from the very start of his life when he will be in conflict to regenerate, and he will survive everything up to that date.

My understanding (and this might be fan theories) is that when different versions of the Doctor meet each other a temporal paradox prevents the younger Doctor from keeping the memories of the encounter (and the older Doctor only regains the memories as events happens in his/her timeline).

Edit: thinking more about Doctors meeting each other, with the teaser for this ep months ago I thought it might touch on a) The first Doctor starting the calculations to freeze Gallifrey in a single moment of time and b) the twelfth Doctor heading to Gallifrey to help save it at the end of the Time War.

But I'm not disappointed it didn't. Those are just two events we know happened because we saw them. We don't actually need them shown to us (like we didn't see when 9 of the other Doctors made the trip to do it)

I have been wondering today since the cliffhanger if the next series might take a page out of the third Doctor's book and ground her on Earth with no TARDIS but that might annoy the people who already annoyed by what they think the new series will be like.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special, the War Doctor did say that he won't remember "any of this" as he farewelled the 10th and the 11th.

I watched the new ep with my daughter next to me. I've told her nothing about the new Doctor because I wanted her to watch it with a totally fresh and uninfluenced opinion. When she saw the regeneration she started immediately smiling from ear to ear and was then jumping up and down with excitement and also ran over to the TV to get a closer look.

[snaketales]

I really don't like how overblown regenerations are now. They're really milked, with all the soaring music and speeches by the Doctor... in my opinion regenerations should be more abrupt and unprepared for.

[GoktimusPrime]

Eh... the regeneration itself isn't that long. There's just a long lead-up to the regeneration, and we had that too with the 11th's regeneration. I think they do it to "soften the blow" for fans, but I agree that we could do without it.

Two really long regenerations, IMO, were the 3rd and 5th Doctors' regenerations. The Third Doctor's long regeneration was understandable though, because it was a forced regeneration and the Doctor was fighting it. The 5th one... guh... prolonged by visions of the Doctor's companions telling him to live on with the Master telling him to die and laughing maniacally. Lame. But yeah, I suppose every regeneration either has a long lead up or the regeneration itself is drawn out. I think it's a way for the outgoing Doctor to "say goodbye" to the audience before being replaced by the new one.

What I find funny is the same repeating cycle that always happens whenever there's a new Doctor.
Beginning of the Doctor's run: "I don't like this new Doctor, the last one was far better."
End of the Doctor's run: "How dare they replace the best Doctor evah!!!"


Seriously. Every single time. Well, maybe except for the Sixth Doctor (apparently Colin Baker wasn't entirely enthused about the way that his Doctor was portrayed and we know that he refused to film the regeneration sequence, leaving Sylvester McCoy to stand in as the regenerating 6th Doctor by wearing a wig.

[Lord_Zed]

Poor Colin Baker wanted to be a darker serious Doctor like the 2nd Doctor, but the BBC made him a clown (and that's the nicest thing I'll ever say about his Doctor).

I really don't like how overblown regenerations are now. They're really milked, with all the soaring music and speeches by the Doctor... in my opinion regenerations should be more abrupt and unprepared for.

Everything is overblown and milked in modern times it seems, subtlety is a lost art now.